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Your donation will contribute to a Car, Transit Pass, Ride, Car Repair, or Airfare for single moms in need.
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RIDE SHARE FOR MOMS
88.4% of single mothers live in poverty, with 51.9% living in extreme poverty. Without a ride, there is little to no chance of improving the situation. It’s also a challenge to get a car to every single parent. But with the ease of new technology and innovative businesses, you can donate a ride to a single parent family to help them be there for that job-interview, schooling, critical healthcare, or day-care.
CARS FOR SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES
There were 12 million single parent families in the USA during 2016, more than 80% were headed by single mothers. Almost half of the 17.2 million children being raised by single mothers live below the poverty line. Without transportation, there is no hope for better education or better employment. Donating a vehicle or money for a car blesses them with opportunity to better their situation. You can also Donate A Vehicle here.
TRANSIT FOR SINGLE MOMS IN CITIES
Being a single parent in a major metropolitan area comes with unique challenges. It also has some advantages. One advantage your donation will help them seize is public transit. Without transportation, there is no hope for better education or better employment. With a modestly generous donation you can provide crucial transportation for a family in need, and restore hope.
More than 1 in 3 single mother families lived in poverty in 2015. A US Census Bureau report states: “Single-parent renters in major metropolitan areas are 7 times more likely to lack a motor vehicle than their owner counterparts.” Poverty keeps most single parents from owning a home or apartment, which means they are also without car. While it may be difficult to get cars to all of those in need, it is also very valuable for those living in major metropolitan areas to have access to public transit, to meet their crucial transportation needs. To this end we ask for your generous donation to provide hope to single parent families with a transit pass for their family.
CAR REPAIR SINGLE-MOM FAMILIES WITH CARS
5.3 million single-parent families below the poverty line in 2015. 4.4 million lead by a female. Some are fortunate to have a car; but, they are burdened by repair costs they can’t afford. Instead of giving them a new car, you generous donation will help them repair and utilize what they do have.
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Donate a Ride.
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RIDES FOR MOMS
Your donations will contribute to providing a Car, Transit Passes, Ride Shares, Car Repair, or Airfare for single moms in need.$708.50 donated
*We define a ride as a one-way trip to a single location.
Transit costs of single ride pass and unlimited month passes are based on the average costs of such passes in 20 metropolitan transit systems across the United States.
For Ride share we referenced statistics found on time.com which reported that in 2016 the national average trip distance on Uber was 6.4 miles, at an average trip cost of $12.95, based on the average of Uber and Lyft trip-cost data.
How do we factor $5 equals 33 rides? We start by assuming $3,000 as an estimated cost of a fair-quality used car with 150,000 miles—to be given to a single-parent family. We then factor the average frequency of rides in a month considering potential rides to and from work, school, groceries, healthcare, kid activities, recreation, gym, church, errands, daycare, etc. Our conservative estimates factor 416 rides per month for a family of 3 (1 adult and 2 kids). For example, if the whole family takes a trip together to the grocery store, that would be 3 rides to the store, and 3 rides returning, for a total of 6 rides to get every member of the family to and from the destination.
If we make a conservative estimate of the car’s life being only to 200,000 miles, then a vehicle with 150,000 has 4 years of regular use left, according to the United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration which states the average miles driven per year in the USA is 13,476 miles. And so, we then multiple 416 rides per month by 48 months and round up slightly to get 20,000 rides in 4 years. We then divide $3,000 (cost of car, repairs, detailing, licensing, and logistics) by 20,000 rides (over a 4 year life span of the car), which gives us a ride value of $0.15.
We then divide a $5 donation by the $0.15 ride value, and that donation is worth 33.33 (rounded to 33) rides.
Consider if it were a family of 7 with a car with 5 years of average use left in it. The ride value would be much greater. Our board of directors and industry experts agreed that our calculations are well within feasible use estimates.
